Arriving in England in the spring of 1943, the US Eighth Air Force’s 100th Bomb Group quickly earned an unenviable nickname thanks to their staggering losses – the ‘Bloody Hundredth’.

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Their story – and how their sacrifices, amid flak, frostbite and fretful firefights, were crucial to bringing about D-Day – is told in Masters of the Air, the long-awaited follow-up to WW2 drama series Band of Brothers and The Pacific, streaming weekly on Apple TV+ from 26 January 2024.

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Kev LochunDeputy Digital Editor, HistoryExtra

Kev Lochun is Deputy Digital Editor of HistoryExtra.com and previously Deputy Editor of BBC History Revealed. As well as commissioning content from expert historians, he can also be found interviewing them on the award-winning HistoryExtra podcast.

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